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Hacker News (Aug 2020)

  1. Neuralink project update summer 2020

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  2. New AI tool detects child sexual abuse material with ‘99% precision’

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  3. Ask HN: Is the word “bot” losing its meaning?

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  4. The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  5. Externality

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  6. The tech industry is culpable for Trump

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  7. Initialized Fund V

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  8. 'swapping bodies' with a friend changes our sense of self

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  9. SQL Queries for Git Repositories

    7 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  10. Ask HN: What web browser engines are under active development?

    7 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  11. How the Trump administration could "ban" TikTok

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  12. Workers breathing smoke to harvest crops isn't 'resilience'–it's a broken system

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  13. Pinterest Accused of Gender Bias in Suit by Former No. 2 Executive

    7 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  14. Americans Are Self-Censoring at Record Rates

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  15. NASA has patented a new route to the moon

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  16. New Zealand Can't Find Source of Its New Covid-19 Cases

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  17. Reddit Censors AMA of William Binney, Former NSA Technical Director

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  18. Ray tracing has failed to deliver on its promise

    7 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  19. NJ Transit, Rutgers study UV light to rid buses of coronavirus

    7 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  20. Statement on Modernization of the Accredited Investor Definition

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  21. AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Braket

    7 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  22. Reddit Admins Takeover My Novelty Account and Handed It to Comcast

    7 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  23. FTC Investigating Twitter for Potential Privacy Violations

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  24. Facebook blames coronavirus for failing to remove child nudity

    7 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  25. Rejected from an interview because first name is too short for internal IT

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  26. DOJ Aims to Seize 280 Cryptocurrency Accounts Used by Hackers

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  27. US Presidential Betting Odds: Far More Accurate Than the Polls

    7 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  28. CPython destroys decade old software with inept threats

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2020

  29. 3-D Printed Statues in Central Park Shine a Light on Women Scientists

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  30. What jobs can get you remote work in 2 years if yore from a 3rd-world country?

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  31. Guy Is Suing the Patent Office for Deciding an AI Can't Invent Things

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  32. Non-Apology Apology

    7 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  33. 95% of Chinese Users Would Rather Give Up Their iPhones Than Lose WeChat

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2020

  34. Show HN: Next-gen sweetener that removes willpower from healthy eating

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  35. The golden age of computer user groups

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  36. OctoSQL Streaming: Adding Temporal SQL on Streams

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  37. In severe crises, governments base their decisions on what other countries do

    7 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  38. Alibaba on the Bleeding Edge of RISC-V with XT910

    7 points • comment • aug 23, 2020

  39. Persuasion on networks

    7 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  40. Amazon Web Services Has Hired Four Former State CIOs

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  41. CenturyLink routing issue led to outages on Hulu, Steam, Discord, more

    7 points • comment • aug 30, 2020

  42. How can I send text messages (SMS) to a list without coding?

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2020

  43. CMU Embedded System Lecture Notes (and Videos)

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  44. Golden Age

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  45. Pinephone Gets Thermal Imaging Backpack

    7 points • comment • aug 03, 2020

  46. The Current State of Exploit Development: Part 1

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  47. Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74

    7 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  48. I confess, I'm scared of the next generation of supercomputers

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  49. Families stuck at home turn to board game Catan, sending sales skyrocketing

    7 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  50. A Nubian Kingdom Rises

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  51. Ask HN: Long Term Covid-19 Complications

    7 points • comment • aug 19, 2020

  52. China Bans Free Text Editor Notepad++ – PCMag

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  53. Show HN: Built by 2 people in 1 year

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  54. Wordpress.com launches new P2 to take on internal communication tools

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  55. Study rewrites the recent history of productive Cascade Arc volcanoes

    7 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  56. Hackers Could Use IoT Botnets to Manipulate Energy Markets

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  57. Google Play Music will begin shutting down in September

    7 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  58. Having videos created for you doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  59. Ask HN: Avoid Manipulation of .ssh/Authorized_keys

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  60. Python mmap: Improved File I/O With Memory Mapping

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  61. Sushi’s Fake Tuna Problem

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2020

  62. TikTok sues Trump administration over US ban

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  63. German princess deletes links from Google after drunk-rant on killing muslims

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2020

  64. Pcicrawler: A Python-based command-line interface tool to debug PCI issues

    7 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  65. Gut microbes shape our antibodies before we are infected by pathogens

    7 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  66. A system for charting how “full-stack” you are

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  67. Turkish Aggression Is NATO’s ‘Elephant in the Room’

    7 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  68. Google buys AR glasses company North

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  69. If Covid-19 isn’t dramatically increasing homeless deaths in SF, then what is?

    7 points • comment • aug 20, 2020

  70. Apple vs. Epic Case 'Inclined' to Side with Apple on Fortnite and Epic on UE

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2020

  71. 2-Factor Authentication – A monster guide to securing accounts with 2FA

    7 points • comment • aug 05, 2020

  72. Phil Schiller leaves Apple

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  73. Trump says TikTok sale can go through but only if the US gets a cut

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  74. A Helpful Guide to Reading Better

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  75. Electric car startup Lucid is challenging Tesla’s anti-Lidar stance

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  76. What archaeology tells us about the music and sounds made by Africa’s ancestors

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  77. How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Need?

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2020

  78. Woolly flying squirrel spotted in Uttrakhand's Gangotri National Park

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  79. Show HN: Today I Learned, tool I created to help me document things I learn

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  80. 78% of H-1B Employers Offer Above Average Market Wages

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2020

  81. YBC 7289

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  82. Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns – RealClearPolitics

    7 points • comment • aug 16, 2020

  83. The dirty secrets of 'clean' electric vehicles

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2020

  84. Meso-computing and meso-data: the forgotten middle

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  85. On Monopolies, Apple, and Epic

    7 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  86. Steve Jobs Insult Response – Highest Quality

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  87. Is insurance more expensive in Black neighborhoods?

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2020

  88. Japanese doctor who lived to 105 – his longevity tips

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2020

  89. Ask HN: I'm building an easy-to-use video editor, tell me your pain points

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  90. Show HN: A Links Crawler for News

    7 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  91. Why We Don't Learn from Experience

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2020

  92. Pandemic Making College Students Question the Price of Their Education

    7 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  93. How This Ends. (The Pandemic)

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2020

  94. Collection of Calculus Concepts and Symbols

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2020

  95. When Covid-19 Hit, Many Elderly Were Left to Die

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2020

  96. New Architectures, Much Faster Chips

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  97. Google Stadia and Microsoft xCloud won't come to iOS due to App Store rules

    7 points • comment • aug 07, 2020

  98. From Minecraft Tricks to Twitter Hack: A Florida Teen’s Troubled Online Path

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  99. An Arizona superintendent on safely reopening schools: 'It's a fantasy'

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2020

  100. The reason engineers should write is to increase their influence

    7 points • comment • aug 31, 2020